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FreedomBox

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The FreedomBox Project is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal, communications.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Linux
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  • wifi-router-box
  • personal-privacy
  • collaboration

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  • Developed by

    US flagFreedomBox Foundation
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about FreedomBox, and it has gotten 10 likes

FreedomBox was added to AlternativeTo by _will on May 11, 2015 and this page was last updated Sep 13, 2021. FreedomBox is sometimes referred to as Freedom Box.

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Top Positive Comment
someonewhowantstousethis
Oct 5, 2017
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Great community and Software. Get one for every friend!

What is FreedomBox?

FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications.

FreedomBox is free software, which means you can freely inspect it, audit it, study it and improve it.

FreedomBox integrates privacy protection on a cheap plug server so everybody can have privacy.

FreedomBoxes are encrypted web proxies. Boxes in uncensored countries can bounce signals for users stuck behind censorship walls---each one is a tiny crack in the Great Firewall. Chinese users could surf the entire net free from government censorship.

With the FreedomBox, we can use VOIP to encrypt telephone calls and can create anonymous web servers over TOR to publish documents. Anonymous instant messaging or microblogging are also possible.

If our internet plug is pulled, the box will use mesh routing to talk to other boxes like it. If any of them can get a packet across the border, they all can.

FreedomBoxes are useful on a daily personal level too. That same proxy technology can scrub web sites of ads and tracking technology as you use them, thus protecting your privacy. FreedomBoxes help you encrypt your email. They also know who your friends are and can back up your data in encrypted form to their FreedomBoxes. You can get your data back even if you don't know your password. Even absent a crisis, privacy matters.

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